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Penguin Classics The Three Musketeers Madame Bovary Alexandre Dumas • 978-0-14-312084-1 Gustave Flaubert • Translated with an Greek Fiction • $15.00 • Sept 2011 • Movie tie-in edition. Introduction and Notes by Lydia Davis Various • Edited with an Introduction by Helen • 978-0-14-310649-4 • $16.00 • Oct 2011 Morales • 978-0-14-044925-9 • $17.00 • Nov 2011 The Secret Garden • “David honors the nuances and particulars of • Contents include Callirhoe, Daphnis and Frances Hodson Burnett • 978-0-14-310645-6 Flaubert’s legendary prose style, giving new life Chloe, Letters of Chion, Chronology and Map of • $16.00 • Nov 2011 • New Penguin Threads in English to the book that redefined the novel Greek fiction Glossary, Notes, and Bibliogaphy. Edition with cover art by Jillian Tamaki. as an art form. “[Flaubert’s] masterwork has been given the English translation it deserves.” Emma Charlie and the Chocolate Factory —The New York Times Book Review. Jane Austen • 978-0-14-310646-3 • $16.00 Roald Dahl • Introduction by Lev Grossman • Nov 2011 • New Penguin Threads Edition • 978-0-14-310633-3 • $15.00 • Sept 2011 The Solitudes (inspired by handcrafted creativity) with cover • When Willy Wonka’s hallowed chocolate Luis de Góngora • Translated with Foreword art by Jillian Tamaki. factory holds a worldwide contest awarding and Notes by Edith Grossman • Introduction tours to five lucky children, Charlie Bucket by Alberto Manguel • 978-0-14-310638-8 Sense and Sensibility must avoid the pitfalls of his fellow contestants • $25.00 • July 2011 • “Edith Grossman has Jane Austen • 978-0-14-310652-4 • $16.00 to win the ultimate prize. Cover art by Ivan surpassed even her magnificent version of Don • Nov 2011 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, Brunetti. Quixote by the far more difficult translation of with jacket illustration by artist, Audrey Góngora’s Solitudes. Few European poems are as Niffenegger. James and the Giant Peach sublime as The Solitudes, and Grossman Roald Dahl • Introduction by Aimee Bender illuminates this truth.”—Harold Bloom. In Defence of the Republic • 978-0-14-310634-0 • $15.00 • Sept 2011 Cicero • Newly translated with an Introduction • Dahl’s timeless and ingenious story, available Monodies and On the Relics of Saints: and Notes by Siobhán McElduff in Penguin Classics for the first time, with The Autobiography and a Manifesto of a • 978-0-14-045553-3 • $16.00 • Nov 2011 cover art by Jordan Crane. French Monk from the Time of the Crusades • Cicero’s greatest speeches; the first in a new Guibert of Nogent • Newly translated by Joseph three-volume series of Cicero’s work. McAlhany and Jay Rubinstein • 978-0-14-310630-2 • $20.00 • Oct 2011 • Opens a window to the medieval mind. • “Marvelous: a revelation. I had not heard of F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Guibert of Nogent. His Monodies is a very dark IN NEW HARDCOVER EDITIONS autobiography and profoundly moving in its visions of sin.”—Harold Bloom. The Beautiful and Damned 978-0-14-119407-3 • $25.00 • Nov 2011 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James • Edited with a New Introduction Tales of the Jazz Age by Philip Horne • 978-0-14-144126-9 • $13.00 978-0-14-119747-0 • $25.00 • Nov 2011 • Oct 2011 • Previous edition: ISBN 978-0-14-143963-1 • The poignant story of This Side of Paradise Isabel Archer, one of James most memorable 978-0-14-119409-7 • $25.00 • Nov 2011 heroines.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) The Turn of the Screw Black Beauty McTeague Henry James • Edited with a New Introduction Anna Sewell • Foreword by Jane Smiley Frank Norris • Introduction by Eric Solomon by David Bromwich • 978-0-14-144135-1 • 978-0-14-310647-0 • $16.00 • Nov 2011 with a new Afterword by Vincent Passaro • $7.00 • Oct 2011 • A young governess at • New Penguin Threads Edition with cover art • 978-0-451-53197-1 • $7.95 • Oct 2011 • The a country house becomes convinced that by Jillian Tamaki. classic novel of American life and the question something is stalking her young charges, of fate versus free will. and is drawn into a frightening battle with Fools Crow a maleficent, though possibly imaginary, evil. James Welch • Introduction by Thomas The Bible’s Greatest Stories • Previous edition: ISBN 978-0-14-144135-1. McGuane • 978-0-14-310651-7 • $16.00 • Nov Translated by Paul Roche • 978-0-451-53192-6 2011 • “A novel that in the sweep and inevita- • $7.95 • Aug 2011 • A new modern prose Just So Stories bility of its events…is a major contribution to translation by a distinguished poet and scholar; Rudyard Kipling • Edited with an Introduction Native American literature.”—Wallace Stegner. with a new afterword. by Judith Plotz • Series editor: Jan Montefiore • 978-0-14-144240-2 • $9.00 • Dec 2011 • One The Songs of the South: an Ancient Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves, of Kipling’s best-loved works, now includes two Chinese Anthology of Poems and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories additional tales, “The Tabu Tale” and “Ham and Qu Yuan and Other Poets • Translated with an of the Supernatural Porcupine,” not published in previous editions. Introduction and Notes by British Sinologist, Edited and with an Introduction by Barbara H. Previous edition: ISBN 978-0-14-018351-1. David Hawkes • 978-0-14-044375-2 • $16.00 Solomon and Eileen Panetta • 978-0-451-53194-0 • Dec 2011 • One of the most influential • $7.95 • Sept 2011 • Includes stories by Henry Kim collections of ancient Chinese poetry, the James, Oscar Wilde, H.P. Lovecraft, Angela Rudyard Kipling • Edited with an Introduction second-oldest of its kind, is back in print by Carter, Stephen King, Anne Sexton, Joe Hill, by Harish Trivedi • 978-0-14-144237-2 • $9.00 popular demand. The poems, originating from and others, with notes about each contributor. • Dec 2011 • Includes notes, a chronology, the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, suggestions for further reading, and a general contain all we know of Chinese poetry’s ancient preface by series editor Jan Montefiore, as well beginnings. The earliest were composed in the as Edward Said’s famous introduction. fourth century BC, and David Hawkes provides Poetry • Previous edition: ISBN 978-0-14-018352-8. a fascinating discussion of the history of the poems and their context, styles, and themes. The Call of Cthulhu The Penguin Anthology and Other Weird Stories of 20th Century American Poetry H.P. Lovecraft • Edited with an Introduction Edited by Rita Dove • 978-0-14-310643-2 and Notes by S.T. Joshi • 978-0-14-310648-7 Signet Classics • $40.00 • Nov 2011 • Pulitzer Prize-winning • $17.00 • Oct 2011 • From early tales such as poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove “The Outsider” to the cosmic terror of “The introduces an unparalleled survey of the best Call of Cthulhu,” this collection reveals the Great Expectations, poems of the past century. Includes such poets development of Lovecraft’s narrative style. 150th anniversary edition as W.H. Auden, Amiri Barak, e.e. cummings, • “The twentieth century’s greatest practitioner Charles Dickens • Introduction by Stanley Billy Collins, T.S. Eliot, Larence Ferlinghetti, of the classic horror tale.”—Stephen King. Weintraub, Penn State University’s Evan Pugh Allen Ginsberg, Yusef Komunyakaa, Robert • Previous edition: ISBN 978-0-14-118234-6. Professor Emeritus of Arts & Humanities Pinsky, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sylvia Plath, Ann with an Afterword by Annabel Davis-Goff Sexton, Gerturde Stein, Derek Walcott and The White People • 978-0-451-53118-6 • $4.95 • Nov 2011. many others. and Other Weird Stories Arthur Machen • Edited with an Introduction Middlemarch Terroir and Notes by S.T. Joshi and Foreword by George Eliot • Introduction by Michel Faber Robert Morgan • 978-0-14-312019-3 • $18.00 Guillermo del Toro • 978-0-14-310559-6 with a new Afterword by bestselling author • Oct 2011 • The first full-length collection in • $16.00 • Oct 2011 • Devotee of Celtic Philippa Gregory • 978-0-451-53196-4 • $7.95 more than a decade from the award-winning Christianity and the Holy Grail legend, • Oct 2011. poet and author of the bestselling novel Gap Welshman Arthur Machen is one of the fathers Creek. • “Morgan’s poems maintain the Silas Marner of weird fiction, a master of mayhem. • “Of important regional commemorations to which George Eliot • Introduction by Frederick K. living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most he is devoted, but shine with beauty that Karl • Afterword by Kathryn Hughes artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal the transcends locale.”—Poetry. • 978-0-451-53062-2 • $3.95 • Aug 2011 versatile Arthur Machen.”—H.P. Lovecraft. • 150th anniversary edition. Absentia The Rape of the Lock William Stobb • 978-0-14-312018-6 • $18.00 Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Other Major Writings • Oct 2011 • New from the author of Nervous D.H. Lawrence • New Afterword by John Alexander Pope • Edited with an Introduction Systems, winner of the 2006 National Poetry Worthen, author of the acclaimed 2007 by Leo Damrosch, Professor of Literature at Series. • “William Stobb has nerve, talent, and biography D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider Harvard University • 978-0-14-042350-1 engages this madly accelerating, often nearly • 978-0-451-53195-7 • $5.95 • Oct 2011. • $20.00 • Sept 2011. indecipherable world in what’s called real time. And he manages it without sacrificing The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Phaedra and Other Plays emotional force.”— August Kleinzahler. Hugh Lofting • Introduction by Jerry Griswold Seneca • Newly translated with an Introduction with a new Afterword by Gary D. Schmidt by R. Scott Smith • 978-0-14-045551-9 • $15.00 • 978-0-451-53191-9 • $5.95 • Aug 2011 • Nov 2011 • Includes Hercules Insane, not • The Newbury Award–winning classic. available in a previous Penguin Classics edition of Seneca’s tragedies.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 3 U.S. Fiction The Lake of Dreams Bill Warrington’s Last Chance Kim Edwards • 978-0-14-312036-0 • $16.00 James King • 978-0-14-311944-9 • $15.00 • Oct • Dec 2011 • The bestselling author of The 2011 • A multignerational saga that sores with The Last Nude Memory Keeper’s Daughter now tells the story of a compassion and insight into the pain and joy of Ellis Avery • 978-159-448813-9 • Dec 2011 woman’s homecoming, a family secret, and the family life. • “Part road odyssey, part coming- • “A sly, sleekly written stereograph of art, old house that holds the key to the true legacy of-age tale, King’s novel achieves the exact right desire and desperation in Paris in the ‘20s, The of a family. • “Set in the Finger Lakes region of balance of humor, redemption, and Last Nude brings Rafaela Fano to electric life, her native New York, [this] tour de force reconciliation.” —Booklist. much as Tamara de Lempicka did when she showcases her talent for engaging readers painted her.”—Alexander Chee, author of immediately and, [Edwards’s] agile prose would Changó’s Beads and Edinburg. • “As erotic and powerful as the argue, effortlessly.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. Two-Tone Shoes: A Novel paintings that inspired it, Ellis Avery’s William Kennedy • 978-0-670-02297-7 • $26.95 artist-muse love story is as much about money, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self • Oct 2011 • A journalist meets Hemingway in class and betrayal.”—Emma Donoghue, author Danielle Evans • 978-1-59448-536-4 • $15.00 a bar in Havana in 1957, and so begins a novel of Room. • Sept 2011 • “The most vivid characters in of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, Danielle Evans’s story collection are crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, The Petting Zoo in-betweeners: between girlhood and woman- Albany race riots, and the improbable rise of Jim Carroll • 978-0-14-312009-4 • $16.00 hood; between the black middle class and Ivy Fidel Castro. • Nov 2011 • Searing novel from the author of League privilege….To say they’re caught The Basketball Diariesabout an art world prodigy between worlds isn’t quite accurate, though; Pretty: A Novel of the 1980s driven by early fame into seclu- they tend to be hard-headed, sadder but wiser Jillian Lauren • 978-0-452-29734-0 • $15.00 sion. • “A well-steered, sincere exploration of and, most of all, funny.”—The New York Times. • Oct 2011 • The author of Some Girls, the frank the art world’s secretive inner politics… depiction of life in a harem, returns with her Carroll’s typically trippy imagery runs freely Lord of the Flies fiction debut, about a woman who finds herself throughout the novel; his Manhattan is William Golding • Introduction by Stephen on the wrong side of the sex, drugs, and eternally seedy and unspooled by sin.” King • 978-0-399-53742-4 • $16.00 • Nov 2011 rock-and-roll lifestyle in the wake of a personal —The Village Voice. • Centenary edition. • “To me Lord of the Flies tragedy. has always represented what novels are for, The Grief of Others: A Novel what makes them indispensible.” The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places, Leah Hager Cohen • 978-1-59448-805-4 —Stephen King. Small World and Nice Work • $26.95 • Sept 2011 • “The Grief of Others is an David Lodge • 978-0-14-312020-9 • $20.00 engrossing and revealing look at a family The Magician King: A Novel • Oct 2011 • Includes Changing Places, Small sinking beneath the weight of a terrible secret. Lev Grossman • 978-0-670-02231-1 • $26.95 World, and Nice Work. • “A trio of dazzling Leah Hager Cohen writes about difficult • Sept 2011 • A sequel to Grossman’s critically novels in a comic mode that the author has subjects with unfailing compassion and acclaimed The Magicians, in which Quentin, now now made completely his own…a cause for insight.”—Tom Perrotta, author of Little Fillorian royalty, embarks on a quest that brings celebration.”—The New York Times Book Review. Children. • “Leah Hager Cohen’s new novel is a him back to a world he left behind long ago. perceptive, absorbing drama about the complex • “Echoes from The Chronicles of Narnia... How to Read the Air: A Novel bonds of the modern American family and the continue to reverberate, but Grossman’s Dinaw Mengestu • 978-1-59448-539-9 • $15.00 treacherous paradox of the way we live now.... psychologically complex characters and grim • Oct 2011 • “How To Read the Air makes us Cohen delves into the hearts of all her reckoning with tragic sacrifice far surpass rethink the tropes of immigrant literature and characters, bringing them fully alive, from their anything in C.S. Lewis’ pat Christian allegory. at a time when some of our most powerful, and most heroic strivings to their darkest flaws.” Fabulous fantasy spiked with bitter adult popular, stories are narrated by foreigners (and —Julia Glass, author of The Widower’s Tale. wisdom.”—Kirkus. some of our most contentious public debates concern foreigners’ rights to be in this The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. Emily Hudson: A Novel country), Mengestu’s novel keenly explores our J. Henry Waugh, Prop: A Novel Melissa Jones • 978-0-14-311986-9 • $16.00 complicated relationship with the idea of the Robert Coover • 978-1-59020-311-8 • $14.00 • Dec 2011 • “No ordinary piece of Victori- immigrant experience.” —Newsweek. • Sept 2011 • A fantasy-league afficionado’s star ana…Jones (sister of the equally talent Sadie) player dies, affecting his life in unimagined has taken a novelist’s liberties with the life of The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey ways, in this blackly comic novel. • “As his [Henry] James’s cousin Minny Temple, who Walter Mosley • 978-1-594-48550-3 • $15.00 dazzling career continues to demonstrate, Mr. died at 24….She was passionate and ambi- • Nov 2011 • Masterful, moving novel about Coover is a one-man Big Bang of exploding tious…In this novel she is given the life she age, memory, and family that will establish creative force.”—The New York Times. deserved.”—The Times(UK). Mosley as one of the true literary icons of our time. • “Mosley is one of the most humane, Noir: A Novel Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Dictionary, insightful, powerful prose stylists working Robert Coover • 978-1-59020-680-5 • $14.00 Tales, and Memoirs today in any genre. He’s also one of the most • Sept 2011 • “[A] brilliant parody of noir and S.T. Joshi • 978-1-59853-102-2 • $35.00 • Sept radical…immerse yourself in the work of one hardboiled fiction and film.”—Michael Lipkin, 2011 • A veteran of some of the bloodiest of our national treasures.”—The Austin Chronicle. New York Journal of Books. battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce • “Borrowing from Faust, the Iliad and Gran became one of the dominant figures in San Torino, Mosley unforgettably transforms Francisco’s emerging literary culture before Ptolemy’s cacophony of memories into a disappearing in Mexico in 1914. As a journalist powerful symphony that makes him ‘into many and fiction writer, he left behind a sardonic, men from out of all the lives he had lived blackly humorous body of work that perfectly through the decades.”—Kirkus (starred review). expresses the bitter postwar cynicism of the time.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 4 Velva Jean Learns to Fly: A Novel World Fiction Jennifer Niven • 978-0-452-29740-1 • $15.00 • Sept 2011 • A plucky WWII heroine dreams of becoming a pilot in this coming-of-age gem, The Keeper of Lost Causes the second in the Velva Jean series. • “Niven Jussi Adler-Olsen • Translated by Tina speaks truly and poignantly of an extraordinary Nunnally • 978-0-525-95248-0 • $25.95 • Aug time in American history. Velva Jean’s story 2011 • Denmark’s #1 crime writer begins a new delves into the contributions made by amazing series following chief detective Carl Moerk in women during World War II and tells a the department of cold case files in Copenha- LIBRARY OF AMERICA compassionate story about adventure, love and gen. • “Adler-Olsen has brought some refresh- war. This is a wonderful book.”—Ann Howard ing new energy into the slightly claustrophobic Creel, author of The Magic of Ordinary Days. and cliché-ridden crime genre.”—Jyllandsposten. The 50 Funniest American Writers: • “This gripping, heartwarming “A worthy successor to Stieg Larsson.” A Humor Anthology action-adventure tale stays with you long after —Diplomatisches Magazine. from Mark Twain to The Onion you turn the last page.”—James Earl Jones. Andy Borowitz, editor • 978-1-59853-107-7 The Wandering Falcon: A Novel • $24.95 • Oct 2011 • An anthology of Salvation City Jamil Ahmad • 978-1-59448-827-6 • $25.95 American humor, classic and contemporary, Sigrid Nunez • 978-1-59448-537-2 • $16.00 • Oct 2011 • A haunting literary debut set in including Thurber and Perelman, Lenny Bruce • Sept 2011 • “In this gorgeously strange and the forbidding remote tribal areas of Pakistan and Bruce Jay Friedman, Garrison Keillor, apocalyptic coming-of-age novel, Nunez shows and Afghanistan • “Masterful…captivating art Dave Barry and Veronica Geng, David that the end of the world can offer a powerful of storytelling at its finest…A shadowy, Sedaris, Bernie Mac, and George Saunders. possibility for a new beginning.”—The Boston enchanting journey…A gripping book, as Globe. “Atheists, a flu pandemic and a coming- important for illuminating the current state of Philip Roth: The American Trilogy of-age story collide in Nunez’s sixth—and this region as it is timeless in its beautiful 1997-2000 perhaps best—novel.”—Time Out New York. imagery and rhythmic prose.”—Publishers Ross Miller, editor • 978-1-59853-103-9 Weekly, (starred Review) • “A striking debut… • $40.00 • Oct 2011 • The definitive Library Why Read Moby-Dick? The power and beauty of these stories are of America Roth edition continues with the Nathaniel Philbrick • 978-0-670-02299-1 unparalled in most fiction to come out of south American Trilogy, collected for the first time. • $25.00 • Oct 2011 • In the Heart of the Sea Asia.”—The Guardian (UK). • “Outstanding… author Philbrick celebrates an American classic. The novel is more than a beautifully written Harlem Renaissance Novels: piece of fiction; it is a socio-anthropological The Library of America Collection The Foreigners account of a tribal landscape that is changing Rafia Zafar, editor • 978-1-59853-106-0 Maxine Swann • 978-1-594488-306 • $15.00 rapidly. Executed brilliantly…This is a book • $70 • Sept 2011 • A landmark collection of • Aug 2011 • From the author of Flower worth more than its weight in gold.”—Business nine great novels of the Harlem Renaissance, Children, for which she received the Harold D. World India including Jean Toomer’s Cane (1923), Arna Vursell Memorial Award from the American Bontemps’s Black Thunder(1936), Nella Academy of Arts and Letters comes a glittering, On Canaan’s Side Larson’s Quicksand (1928), and George S. energetic novel about three women-each Sebastian Barry • 978-0-670-02292-2 • $25.95 Schuyler’s Black No More (1931). • “A major experiencing an awakening in the gloriously • Sept 2011 • The author of The Secret Scripture contribution to our understanding of the conflicted and sexy city of Buenos Aires delivers a magnificent new novel that is the Harlem Renaissance, and to the history of • “Atmospheric, evocative literary fiction that story of twentieth-century America and that of the novel in American literature.” ruminates on what it means and how it feels to Lilly Bere, an Irishwoman who fled Ireland —Henry Louis Gates, Jr. be foreign.”—Booklist with her fiance, targeted for his part in the death of four IRA members. • “On Canaan’s Side If Jack’s In Love is written with vast sympathy and tenderness. An Accident in August Stephen Wetta • 978-0-399-15752-3 • $24.95 Barry’s handling of voice and cadence is Laurence Cossé • Translated from the French • Oct 2011 • A twelve-year-old genius lives in a masterly. His fictional universe is filled with by Alison Anderson • 978-1-60945-049-6 Virginia suburb in 1967 with his family, all of life, quiet truth and exquisite intimacy; it is also • $15.00 • Sept 2011 • A young woman’s life is whom are facing various degrees of hard luck. fully alert to the power and irony of history. In thrown into turmoil when fortune places her • “[A] lovely, passionate, and compelling story.” evoking Lilly Bere, he has created a most at the scene of the fatal car crash in which —Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump. memorable character.”—Colm Tóibín, author Princess Diana lost her life. of the Costa Novel Award-winning Brooklyn. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress Arthur Conan Doyle • 978-0-14-312015-5 Beryl Bainbridge • 978-1-60945-056-4 • $15.00 • $14.00 • Oct 2011 • More unforgettable • Dec 2011 • A young Londoner travels to the Holmes mysteries, including “Silver Blaze,” United States to meet one man, and to look for “The Greek Interpreter,” “The Musgrave Ritual,” another who rescued her from a dreadful and “The Final Problem.” childhood. She finds an America recently convulsed by the assassination of Martin Luther King and subsequent riots, and Robert Kennedy on the same path as her own pilgrimage. “One of the most distinctive and admired voices in postwar British fiction.” —William Grimes, The New York Times.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 5 Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore: The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay Mr. Fox: A Novel A Novel Beverly Jensen • 978-0-14-311929-6 • $15.00 Helen Oyeyemi • 978-1-59448-807-8 • $25.95 Stella Duffy • 978-0-14-311987-6 • $15.00 • “This novel-in-stories offers a richly textured • Oct 2011 • “Mr. Fox is a wonderfully original • Oct 2011 • The story of a woman who rose portrait of two sisters’ divergent lives in 1916 novel, full of images and turns of phrase so from humble beginnings as a dancer to become New Brunswick, a barren world of potato farms arresting, so vivid and inventive, its pages the empress of Rome and a saint in the and lobster traps, rough men, hard work, and almost glow with them. Helen Oyeyemi has Orthodox Church. • “A novel that remains true rugged beauty. “Contains a good half-dozen of given us a work of playful charm and serious to its historical sources, whilst managing to the richest fictional characters I’ve encountered narrative pleasure.”—Sarah Waters, author of reinvent its subject matter with great freshness anywhere.”—Richard Russo. The Little Stranger. and verve. A vivid and affectionate portrait of one of the most fascinating personalities of the Our Kind of Traitor Sea Change ancient world.”—Sarah Waters, author of The John Le Carré • 978-0-14-311972-2 • $15.00 Jeremy Page • 978-0-14-311984-5 • $15.00 Little Stranger. • May 2011 • From the author of The Little • Nov 2011 • Portrait of a disintegrating Drummer Girl and The Constant Gardener, a novel marriage and the heartbreaking reverberations Crossbones: A Novel that involves a couple on vacation and the of the loss of a child. • “This haunting, Nuruddin Farah • 978-1-59448-816-0 • $27.95 corruption of the financial and political worlds. beautifully realized novel concerns perhaps the • Sept 2011 • A native from Mogadiscio returns • “Part vintage le Carré and part Alfred most devastating loss one can experience—the with his journalist son-in-law, who is intent on Hitchcock…the author’s most thrilling thriller loss of a child…Page depicts Guy’s devastating covering the region’s turmoil, and encounters in years.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York emotions superbly, engaging the themes of love pirates, religious insurgents, and a people Times. and loss with remarkable tenderness, sympathy, bracing for an Ethiopian invasion. The third in and compassion....A poignant and heartbreak- the trilogy that includes Links and Knots. A Man of Parts: A Novel ing novel enthusiastically recommended for all David Lodge • 978-0-670-02298-4 • $26.95 readers.”—Library Journal. Utu • Sept 2011 • A moving, funny, sexy novel Caryl Férey • Translated from the French by about the life of the British writer H.G. Wells. Lionheart Howard Curtis • 978-1-60945-055-7 • $15.00 Told through the stories of the many women he Sharon Kay Penman • 978-0-399-15785-1 • Nov 2011 • An expert in Maori culture was involved with during his life, including • $28.95 • Oct 2011 • The four surviving sons of investigates the suicide of an old friend, which writer Rebecca West, to reveal a man full of Henry Fitz and Eleanor of Aquitaine and their happened on the heels of the death of a Maori contradictions: a socialist who enjoyed his history: how Geoffrey rebelled, Richard ascended healer accused of murder. • “Powerful and affluence, a religious Darwinist, and a feminist to the throne, and John stole his crown. Based unflinching in its portrayal of evil both womanizer. on extensive research into first-hand accounts, mindless and calculating.”—Publishers Weekly. both Christian and Muslim, Penman constructs You Deserve Nothing a better picture of Richard as warrior-king than Fall of Giants Alexander Maksik • 978-1-60945-048-9 has hitherto been seen. Ken Follett • 978-0-451-23257-1 • $25.00 • Aug • $15.00 • Sept 2011 • “A provocative, 2011 • “Everything in this novel is oversized, constantly surprising, and original novel Conference of the Birds from the scope of history it covers to the written with precision and grace. Maksik is Peter Sís • 978-1-59420-306-0 • $27.95 characters he creates. It’s a book that will suck unflinching in his exploration of the sexual • Nov 2011 • Celebrated children’s book author you in, consume you for days or weeks, awakening of the young, and the moral and illustrator Peter Sís creates his first book depending upon how quick a reader you are, complexity of adulthood. This is a thrilling for adults. A beautiful and uplifting adaptation then let you out the other side both entertained debut.”—Susanna Moore, author of In the Cut of the classic twelfth-century Sufi epic poem, and educated. That’s quite the feat.”—USA Today and The Big Girls. The Conference of the Birds.

Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm The Death of King Arthur: The House at Tyneford Stella Gibbons • 978-0-14-312001-7 • $16.00 The Immortal Legend Natasha Solomons • 978-0-45-229764-7 • Dec 2011 • Stories of the Starkadders at Cold Sir Thomas Malory • A retelling by Peter • Dec 2011 • “A deeply touching and blissfully Comfort Farm before Flora’s arrival. Ackroyd • 978-0-670-02307-3 • $26.95 • Nov romantic elegy for a lost world.”—The Times 2011 • “In this abridged retelling, Ackroyd (London). “A vivid and poignant story about Of Beasts and Beings transforms Le Morte d’Arthur, Sir Thomas hope, loss and reinvention.”—Psychologies Ian Holding • 978-1-60945-054-0 • $15.00 Malory’s inventive fifteenth-century master- Magazine (UK). • Nov 2011 • A man is taken captive in a work into a dramatic modern story of the post-apocalyptic wasteland, then is traded and Golden Age of Camelot. “[A] thrilling piece of Everybody’s Right ransomed to another group, and forced to push writing.”—The Wall Street Journal. Paolo Sorrentino • Translated from the Italian a pregnant woman in a wheelbarrow on an by Antony Shugaar • 978-1-60945-052-6 endless journey. “A postmodern elegy I won’t Moffie: A Novel • $15.00 • Oct 2011 • “The story of a nightclub soon forget.”—Alice Sebold. • “A thought- André Carl van der Merwe crooner-philosopher by one of Italy’s most provoking study of the dehumanizing effects of • 978-1-60945-050-2 • $15.00 • Sept 2011 acclaimed filmmakers. “The rise and fall of racial violence and oppression.”—The Guardian. • During the Angola Bush War in Southwest Tony Pagoda turns out to be the rise and fall of Africa, a young South African man is an entire country...Sorrentino’s fantasy knows The Kite Runner: Graphic Novel conscipted into the army, where he faces no bounds.”—La Repubblica (Italy). Khaled Hosseini • Illustrated by Fabio Celoni persecution as a gay man. and Mirka Anodolfo • 978-1-59448-547-3 • $19.00 • Sept 2011 • A beautifully illustrated graphic novel adaptation of the perennial bestseller, with text by Hosseini himself.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 6 Short Stories / Essays PENGUIN GREAT FOODS / Literary Criticism These celebrated and quirky texts give us a glimpse into the everyday lives, rituals, and enjoyments of the inhabitants of various periods in British and European history. Short Stories in Chinese: $12.00 • Nov 2011 New Penguin Parallel Text Edited by John Balcom • 978-0-14-311835-0 • $17.00 • Dec 2011 • A dual-language edition of contemporary Chinese stories, many appearing in English for the first time, including Li Rui, Ma Yuan, and six more.

In the Company of Rilke: Why a 20th-Century Visionary Poet Speaks so Eloquently to 21st-Century Readers Stephanie Dowrick • 978-1-58542-867-0 • $17.95 • Sept 2011 • An internationally Exciting Food for Southern Types A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig bestselling author with many years of experi- ence in psychotherapeutic approaches utilizes Pellegrino Artusi • 978-0-241956-36-6 and Other Essays Rilke’s visionary voice, to help readers address • Writing just two decades after Italy’s Charles Lamb • 978-0-241956-35-9 the profound mystery and complex beauty of unification, Italian businessman Artusi • This celebrated English essayist, part of the human existence. (1820-1870) was the first to include recipes group of English writers that included from all of Italy’s regions. Shelley, Byron, and Coleridge, originally Life Times: Stories wrote this piece for his collection Essays of The Campaign for Domestic Happiness Nadine Gordimer • 978-0-14-311983-8 Elia. • $18.00 • Nov 2011 • Stories from the oeuvre Isabella Beeton • 978-0-24956-34-2 of the Nobel Prize winner. • “Superb…a series • Beeton wrote articles on cooking and The Well-Kept Kitchen of masterly drawn glimpses into the story- running a household between 1859-1861, Gervase Markham • 978-0-241956-41-0 making art of one of Africa’s great modern providing an invaluable look at everyday life • This 1615 handbook, aimed at middle-class literary geniuses.”—Alan Cheuse, NPR. in Victorian Britain. women contained advice on everything from planting herbs and brewing beer, to feeding Post-It Note Diaries: 20 Stories Buffalo Cake and Indian Pudding animals and distilling perfume, offering a of Youthful Abandon, Embarrassing A.W. Chase • 978-0-241956-33-5 glimpse into the way we lived, worked, and Mishaps, and Everyday Adventure • Chase’s cookbooks were great sellers ate 400 years ago. among pioneers and settlers who were eager Arthur Jones • 978-0-452-29697-8 • $15.00 to have a multi-purpose how-to guide. The Joys of Excess • Nov 2011 • Post-Its are illustrator Arthur Jones’s ideal canvas for depicting everyday Samuel Pepys • 978-0-241956-38-0 calamaties in the stories of a top-shelf roster of From Absinthe to Zest • The celebrated diarist enjoyed every contributors, including John Hodgeman, Mary Alexandre Dumas • 978-0-241956-37-3 pleasure of life, including food and drink, Roach, Chuck Klosterman, and David Rakoff. • The celebrated and prolific author of The that seventeenth-century London had to ESS Three Musketeersand The Count of Monte Cristo offer, as these excerpts from his diaries attest. was an expert cook and great traveler, and his cosmopolitan outlook is reflected in The Recipes from the White Hart Inn Great Dictionary of Cuisine (1873). William Verral • 978-0-241956-40-3 Science Fiction • The redoubtable eighteenth-century A Little Dinner Before the Play landlord of the White Hart Inn in Sussex Agnes Jekyll • 978-0-241956-39-7 introduced modern French cooking to Zero History • In the early 1920s, society hostess and customers, and to Englishmen in general, in William Gibson • 978-0-14-311982-1 • $15.00 philanthropist, Agnes Jekyll, wrote about his Complete System of Cookery, one of the • Sept 2011 • “One of the major novels of the food for every imaginable mood and best-loved food books of its time. year by one of Canada’s outstanding writers. A occasion, with emphasis on fresh, simple, novel in which paranoia is accepted as the cost and stylish dishes. of affluence....For all his books’ dystopian atmosphere, Gibson retains the sense of Selected Stories Take This Man wonder that propelled science fiction’s golden William Trevor • 978-0-14-311596-0 • $21.00 Alice Zeniter • Translated from the French by age.”—National Post. • “One of the most • Oct 2011 • Includes After Rain, The Hill Alison Anderson • 978-1-60945-053-3 • $15.00 visionary, original, and quietly influential Bachelors, A Bit on the Side, and Cheating at • Oct 2011 • On the occasion of marrying her writers currently working.”—The Boston Globe. Canasta by “the greatest living writer of short friend, a black man, to save him from deporta- • “His eye for the eerie in the everyday still stories in the English language.”—The New tion, a white French woman reflects on their lends events an otherworldly sheen.” Yorker. friendship and France’s racial history and —The New Yorker. contemporary culture. • “Zeniter’s voice is appealing, energizing and spry. She has much that is important to say in Take This Man.” —Le Monde.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 7 The Postmortal Memoir / Biography / Cocktail Hour Under Drew Magary • 978-0-425-24077-9 • $16.00 Autobiography the Tree of Forgetfulness • Aug 2011 • A dystopian thriller about a future Alexandra Fuller • 978-1-59420-299-5 • $25.95 world without death—and its unforeseen • Sept 2011 • “A sardonic follow-up to her first consequences. • “A darkly comic, totally gonzo, Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli memoir about growing up in Rhodesia circa and effectively frightening population-bomb and the Man Who Reinvented Food the 1970s, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, dystopia in the spirit of Logan’s Run…and the Colman Andrews • 978-1-592-40668-5 this work traces in wry, poignant fashion the best episodes of The Twilight Zone.” • $16.00 • Dec 2011 • The biography of Ferran lives of her intrepid British parents, determined —Neal Pollack, author of Alternadad. Adrià, the chef behind one of Spain’s most to stake a life on their farm despite the raging renowned restaurants, by cofounder and African civil war around them....Fuller achieves Echo: An Alex Benedict Novel former editor-in-chief of Saveur. another beautifully wrought memoir.” Jack McDevitt • 9781-937007-00-3 • $7.99 —Publishers Weekly (starred review). “Fuller’s • Oct 2011 • The last book in the Alex Benedict Twain’s Feast: Searching for prose is so beautiful and so evocative that series about alien species. • “[McDevitt is] the America’s Lost Foods in the readers will feel that they, too, are sitting under logical heir of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Footsteps of Samuel Clemens that tree. A gorgeous tribute to both her Clarke.”—Stephen King. • “Twenty years from Andrew Beahrs • 978-0-14-311934-0 • $16.00 parents and the land they love.”—Booklist. now, reviewers will be comparing other writers • Nov 2011 • “Beahrs, a wonderfully lucid, After the Falls: to McDevitt...[Echo] is highly recommended.” knowledgeable, and enthusiastic writer, uses Science Fiction Review — . Twain’s gustatory passions as a map with which Coming of Age in the Sixties to explore the nation.”—Chicago Tribune. Catherine Gildiner • 978-0-14-311985-2 I, ROBOT: to protect • $16.00 • Nov 2011 • Sequel to the bestselling Mickey Zucker Reichert • 978-0-451-46419-4 Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years memoir Too Close to the Falls. • “Hard to put • $24.95 • Nov 2011 • The first book in an of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle down. . . . One quickly feels an empathy and all-new epic sci-fi trilogy authorized by the Ingrid Betancourt • 978-0-14-311998-2 fascination with this frank girl whose radically Isaac Asimov estate. • $16.00 • Sept 2011 • Former Colombian changing life plunges her back and forth between child and adult several times. It’s no Children of Paranoia presidential candidate shares the story of her captivity and powerful teachings of resilience, surprise she became a clinical psychologist.” Trevor Shane • 978-0-525-95237-4 • $25.95 resistance, and faith. • “Betancourt’s riveting —Winnipeg Free Press (Canada). • “Downright • Sept 2011 • A dystopian novel that exposes an account…is an unforgettable epic of moral irresistible…Gildiner delves into the bonds of underground war hidden in the shadows of our courage and human endurance.” family and love, all in a voice so infectious I’d own world, in the voice of an assassin named —Los Angeles Times. follow it anywhere.”—Caroline Leavitt, Joseph who has been bred since boyhood into a The Boston Globe. bloody way of life, as told by letter to Maria, an Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, from innocent whom he loves. • “A claustrophobic, Grocer’s Daughter to Prime Minister Disaster Preparedness relentless, fascinating ride that will have you John Campbell • 978-0-143-12087-2 • $16.00 Heather Havrilesky • 978-1-59448-546-1 eyeballing everyone you pass in the street.” • Oct 2011 • The only one volume history of • $15.00 • Dec 2011 • A stunningly perceptive, —Marcus Sakey, The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes. Thatcher available in the US market. hilarious memoir about the transformative humiliations of childhood—and adulthood— Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life from a truly original voice. • “[Havrilesky] is Young Adult Lisa Chaney • 978-0-670-02309-7 • $27.95 smart, hilarious, unique.”—Anne Lamott. • Nov 2011 • Drawing on newly discovered love letters and other records to recreate the Holy Ghost Girl Everything Happens Today controversial story of Chanel, biographer Donna Johnson • 978-1-59240-630-2 • $26.00 Oct 2011 • “Holy Ghost Girl takes you inside a Jesse Browner • 978-1-60945-051-9 • $15.00 Chaney reveals the truth about the drug habit world where God and sin and miracles and • Oct 2011 • A single day, on which everything and lesbian affairs of the twentieth century’s deceit and love are so jumbled together you seems to happen, in the life of a seventeen- foremost fashion icon. can’t tell them apart. Donna Johnson sorts year-old who attends Manhattan’s elite Dalton through her story with great insight, compas- School, and lives with with terminally ill Fiction Ruined My Family sion and humor, giving us an indelible portrait mother, distant father and beloved younger Jeanne Darst • 978-1-59448-814-6 • $25.95 of a charismatic preacher and the faithful who sister. • September 2011 • “Dazzlingly funny, gut wrenching and infested with writing that will so desperately believed in him.”—Jeannette Gandhi: A Manga Biography absolutely floor you. Fiction Ruined My Family Walls, The New York Times bestselling author of Written and illustrated by Kazuki Ebine has ruined me—how will I ever be able to use The Glass Castle • “This is a thoroughly • 978-0-14-312024-7 • $15.00 • Oct 2011 those adjectives again and mean them as much provocative memoir....Holy Ghost Girl is a • The life of a true twentieth-century hero told as I do now?”—Sloane Crosley, author of How sensitive exploration of the power that inheres in a vibrant graphic novel format for younger Did You Get This Number. in faith communities, however flawed.”—Rho- readers. da Janzen, author of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress.

Socrates: A Man for Our Times • • • Paul Johnson • 978-0-670-02303-5 • $25.95 For more Penguin and Penguin Classics titles for your courses, • Oct 2011 • Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson check out the Penguin Academic Website at www.penguin.com and find us on Facebook disentangles centuries of scarce sources to offer a portrait of a homely, middle-class man living • • • in Athens, who through his powerful mind and ideas has come to personify philosophy.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 8 The Memory Chalet Wendy and the Lost Boys: Cabin: Two Brothers, A Dream, Tony Judt • 978-0-14-311997-5 • $15.00 • Nov The Uncommon Life and Five Acres in Maine 2011 • Final reflections on the events of a happy of Wendy Wasserstein Lou Ureneck • 978-0-670-02294-6 • $25.95 life dovetail with their larger historical Julie Salamon • 978-1-59420-298-8 • $29.95 • Sept 2011 • “In this thoughtful and engaging contexts—from acclaimed historian Tony Judt. • Sept 2011 • “From veteran nonfiction author book, Lou Ureneck isn’t simply writing about • “Both an autobiography and a lovely little Salamon (Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, building a cabin; he is writing a deeper story social history of the second half of the Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God about love and loss, home and family, and how twentieth century.”—Time. • “A tremendously and Diversity on Steroids), the authorized two brothers, long separated, were able to moving memorial to a first-class historian and biography of the playwright who brought the renew the powerful bond between them.” essayist.... This book is quintessential Judt: dreams and disappointments of her generation —Gay Talese. • “Two other cabin dwellers who humane, fearless, unsparingly honest. In essay of women to the American stage….The author’s wrote classic books—Henry David Thoreau after essay the same qualities shine forth, all the real interest…is in elucidating Wasserstein’s and Louise Dickinson Rich—have a worthy more remarkable given the tragic circumstanc- complex personality and the creative, uncon- successor in Lou Ureneck. Like them, he took es.”—Financial Times. ventional life she fashioned for herself, to the woods to live deliberately. Like them, his balancing fraught but committed family ties cabin stands as a kind of metaphor for life.” James Joyce: A Life with a busy social life teeming with devoted —Chet Raymo Edna O’Brien • 978-0-14-311993-7 • $14.00 • friends....Perceptive and empathetic, but also Dec 2011 • “Vivid…Elegantly captures both the gently unsparing—a superbly nuanced Outside Looking In: brilliance and the sadness of a life given to the portrait.”—Kirkus Reviews. Adventures of an Observer pursuit of literary beauty.”—Utne Reader. • Garry Wills • 978-0-670-02214-4 • $25.95 • “Joyce fans should thank their lucky stars.” You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know: Oct 2010 • Vivid account of the author’s career —The New York Times. A True Story of Family, as a journalist—from covering the Civil Rights Face Blindness, and Forgiveness movement and the Vietnam War, to his keen The Next Big Story: My Journey Heather Sellers • 978-1-59448-773-6 • $16.00 observations of movies, opera, and politics. His Through the Land of Possibilities • Oct 2011 • “To read You Don’t Look Like Anyone book, Lincoln at Gettysburg, won the 1993 Soledad O’Brien • 978-0-451-23284-7 • $15.00 I Know is to realize that everyone’s family…is a Pulitzer Prize. “One of the country’s most • Oct 2011 • “Soledad…brings her unique tough, frustrating, screwed-up, destructive distinguished intellectuals [and] one of its most personal experience to whatever story she may mess. And it is also to realize that the very same provocative.”—The New York Times. be covering.”—Katie Couric family is a fragile, beautiful, life-affirming, essential blessing.”—Chicago Tribune. Verdi’s Shakespeare: Men of the Theater Where’s My Wand?: One Boy’s Magical • “Poignant…though prosopagnosia is the Gary Wills • 978-0-670-02304-2 Oct 2011 Triumph over Alienation and Shag narrative vehicle, the memoir is really about the • $25.95 • Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong Carpeting legacy of mental illness.”—The Boston Globe. opera devotee Garry Wills explores the writing Eric Poole • 978-0-425-24101 • $15.00 and staging of Verdi’s three triumphant • Summer 2011 • “Engagingly large-hearted. The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir Shakespearian operas: Macbeth, Othello, and The author’s humor is largely character-driven Leslie Marmon Silko • 978-0-14-312010-0 Falstaff. Wills delves into the fast-paced worlds focusing on his long-suffering father, his older • $16.00 • Oct 2011 • Silko’s memoir is a of these men of the theater, focusing on the sister, and his cleanliness-obsessed mother.... moving and deeply personal contemplation of intense working relationships both Shakespeare Poole has his own obsession: Endora from the enormous power of the natural world. and Verdi had with the performers and produc- Bewitched. Whenever things get tough, he dons “Evocative…an exploration of Silko’s relation- ers of their works. With fascinating portraits of a white chenille bedspread and becomes ship with the natural and spiritual worlds—and these artistic giants and their entourages, sharp Endora, imagining magical solutions to his it’s a very close relationship.” insights into music and theater, and telling many problems—bullies, his parents’ argu- —The New York Times. historical details, Verdi’s Shakespeare re-creates ments...and his growing awareness of his the conditions that allowed Verdi to complete homosexuality....Somewhere along the line... Charles Dickens: A Life his masterworks and illuminates the very Poole does beome a deomon trumpet player, Jane Smiley • 978-0-14-311992-0 • $14.00 nature of artistic creation. which may—by the time he’s in high school— • Dec 2011 • The tumultuous life of England’s open the door to peer acceptance. Readers will greatest novelist beautifully rendered by The Rules of the Tunnel be rooting for him.”—Booklist. unparalleled literary biographer Claire Tomalin Ned Zeman • 978-1-592-40598-5 • Aug 2011 • “A lucid account. Jane Smiley has enhanced • “Ned Zeman is simply one of the best writers our understanding of the work.” we have and in his honest memoir of depres- —The Atlantic Monthly. • “An acrobatic—and sion, mania and amnesia he uses his journalist’s also deeply satisfying—achievement.” skills to reconstruct events in a way that is —Newsday. compulsively entertaining....I bet you won’t be able to put it down.”—Bryan Burrough, New York Times bestselling author of The Big Richand Public Enemies.

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